Leadership for a Complex World

Workshop details

The workshops

One: Strategy & Decision Making

Two: Leadership & Collaboration

Three: Agility & Adaptability

Four: Engagement & Performance

Two days

The performance of an organisation has many dimensions from the ability to develop and sustain a clear competitive advantage to the ability and motivation of all its employees to consistently deliver over time. High levels of employee engagement correlate with high levels of performance and leadership’s role in embedding

As business leaders we aspire to build organisations that are as nimble as change itself, yet research informs us that most change programmes fail with record numbers of organisations going out of business, not because they are out-competed, but because they fail to adapt. In effect, they are internally-focused rather than externally-focused. Like so many aspects of leading an organisation there is no one formulaic answer to addressing its complex challenges. However, there is a direct relationship between the degree of change and turbulence an organisation faces and its ability to be agile and adaptive. The more turbulence the greater the need for agility. Learning outcomes

We recognise the world of work is changing exponentially, ranging from climate change through to revolutionary developments in new technologies. This dramatically impacts all organisations in a variety of ways. The challenge for developing and implementing effective strategy is to navigate those changes, ensuring sustainable strategic advantage is achieved. Exponential change requires today’s leadership to look way beyond traditional planning cycles, to read the signals in the environment, to interpret the signals and take appropriate action. Consequently, the challenge becomes one of developing a deeper understanding of how, as humans, we make choices and decisions and how we mitigate the inherent unhelpful biases we all carry to achieve the positive outcomes we seek. Learning outcomes This workshop will help you develop a deeper understanding of strategy and strategic thinking and the implications for implementation. In addition, you’ll develop greater personal awareness of how decision processes actually work, ranging from intuition through to data-driven rationale analysis.

We work in an era where leadership is less about ‘having all the answers’ and increasingly about creating an environment where multiple perspectives are brought together to resolve complex, adaptive challenges. Collaboration both between functions within organisational boundaries and between players across other organisational boundaries. Collaboration is now seen as an essential capability, but many organisations still struggle with having an inward-looking silo mentality in the way they are organised and work. Learning outcomes This workshop will help you understand the nature of leadership required to continuously ‘lubricate the wheels’ of collaboration, identifying and overcoming many of the silo related barriers in its way. In doing so, you’ll learn how to create a culture where collaboration is normalised, expected, valued, and rewarded.

a strong sense of purpose, meaning and belonging are recurring themes. Learning outcomes This workshop will not only

draw on insights from previous workshops but take a deeper dive into the behavioural science of why people commit and the conditions that need creating to make this happen. It will include different perspectives from other disciplines such as the arts where the concept of rehearsal is central to high performance. It will also explore the human aspect of engagement including building trust, working in teams and the influence of emotions with all the implications for leadership.

This workshop explores the characteristics of agility and

adaptability and their implications for leadership, and the capability profile of the organisation. At the heart of agility resides critical components which this workshop explores such as innovation capability, the degree of experimentation, leadership’s role, the capacity for learning and the acceptance (or not) of failure.